Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for Figure for the week ending August 28, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Nano Banana 2.1.
Category Cover Image Prompt: A 16:9 mid-1980s murder-mystery movie poster of a wide gothic Victorian mansion in stark black-and-white engraving on pure black, with warm amber windows showing humanoid bipedal robots in tuxedos and gowns posing theatrically with teacups and warehouse totes, other windows crowded with charging docks, robotic grippers and battery packs like evidence, one window showing a lone robotic hand pressed to the glass; a silver-haired mustachioed butler in black tailcoat stands in the open front door holding a silver tray with an envelope sealed with a tiny letter F, fat rounded white title lettering spelling 'Figure' above the roofline, campy spooky theatrical tone.
This Week in Figure News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
- Index data push: Brett Adcock announced Index, a crowdsourced app where people upload egocentric video to train Figure's Helix model for its F.03 robots. He cited 16M uploads, 264k downloads and a plan to spend $1B on data and compute over the next 12 months.
- Real-job demos: Adcock posted a fully autonomous 15-foot ladder climb up and down, and said it is a real customer use case where the robot climbs to a mezzanine to work, then climbs back down when the shift ends.
- Speed claims and a rival: The Humanoid Hub reported that X Square Robot's WALL-B sorted 10K parcels at 1.88 seconds each, about 35% faster than Figure's reported 2.88. Adcock separately said Figure is accelerating again and teased a critical update.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to Figure
Hark is building models that can use computers better than humans Handoff operates across the internet, which is most of the computer use worldwide and a genuinely noisy place to work in I’m looking forward to the day I stop using a traditional computer”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2092057875019624680
Today Hark is announcing a multi-year partnership with NVIDIA with gigawatt-scale compute capacity on next-generation Vera Rubin platforms Hark is building multimodal systems that remember who you are and what you plan to do. Our work with NVIDIA will support frontier model”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2092989234189869211
This robot just beat Figure’s package sorting speed. Robotic arms powered by X Square Robot’s WALL-B embodied AI sorted 10K parcels in 5 hours 14 minutes. That’s 1.88 sec per parcel, ~35% faster than Figure’s reported 2.88 seconds per parcel. Figure’s 9-day continuous demo in”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2090666295796588970
15 feet up. 15 feet down. Fully autonomous”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2091204189947105619
One interesting point: this is a real customer use case. We have to climb up this exact ladder to a mezzanine to do the work, then just climb back down when the shift is over”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2091907366401069491
We’re now over 43,000 weekly active users collecting data to train Helix, our AI model for F.03 robots This data collection project, Index, is our answer to the data problem: the largest useful robot training dataset in the world Extrapolate out, and this is the pretraining”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2092628102262477268
Introducing Index Today we’re coming out of stealth with Index, the largest & most diverse robot dataset in the world → 30min of video uploads/sec → 16M video uploads → Paid $15M to date → 264k downloads We’re committed to spending $1B the next 12 months on data & compute”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2092303633559982106
Figure takes vertical integration to another level. Figure built its own egocentric data collection pipeline. Index is a crowdsourcing platform where anyone can collect data. – 264K app downloads across 108 countries – 44K weekly active contributors – 16M videos uploaded, 30″
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2092388111083065555
Year 2050″
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2091559896315740376
Yes, Figure is accelerating again. We’re going through another step change in capabilities Tomorrow we’ll be sharing a critical update, one that’s required to solve general robotics”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2092094383843926099
You may or may not see Figure robots walking outdoors when driving around the Figure headquarters. Just saying. Saw some yesterday with @GoingBallistic5″
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2091270467567161528
Figure campus is a sci-fi movie”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2091663840832618591
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